 | 1990 - 480 páginas
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 | Richard R. O'Keefe - 1995 - 252 páginas
...distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker. {Complete Works 1:82-84) Although Edward Waldo Emerson glossed the source of this passage as Aristophanes'... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - 1995 - 200 páginas
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 | W. Clark Gilpin - 1996 - 248 páginas
...condition of society, the scholar was "Man Thinking," but in society's degenerate state the scholar became "a mere thinker, or, still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking." The task, then, was to regenerate scholarly work as a fully human social activity. This began, Emerson... | |
 | Anita Haya Patterson - 1997 - 268 páginas
...[in society], the scholar is delegated intellect," Emerson writes. "In the right state, he is, Man Thinking. ... In this view of him, as Man Thinking,...pictures; him the past instructs; him the future invites" (Essays, 54). On the other hand, in "The American Scholar" Emerson makes clear reference to the specific... | |
 | David E. Nye - 1997 - 244 páginas
...for the rest of society, serving as its "delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society,...still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking." In the Transcendentalist view, a child was less likely to be such a parrot, and as Twain later showed,... | |
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In this distribution of functions the scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking. In the degenerate state, when the victim of society, he tends to become a mere thinker, or still worse, the parrot of other men's thinking. 
